Religion Feels Forced in your Home. How Do You Handle It?

Consider this situation: You live in a household where your mother, is deeply religious. She tries hard to teach you and your siblings the importance of religion and compels you to pray every morning. If time permits, she even insists that you pray when you're free. All your siblings follow her instructions out of compulsion, but you, on the other hand, feel no connection to these prayers.

To you, it all feels untrue and disconnected from your simple perspective on life. You believe that success comes from managing yourself, working hard, and putting in constant effort rather than relying on prayers.

Meanwhile, your mother often teaches that God is the one who grants success, punishes wrongdoers, and controls everything that happens. You have thought about this idea of God—especially when you're facing something important, like an exam. At such times, you might ask God to be by your side and help you complete your work correctly, but you don’t ask for much. In contrast, your mother prays with a long list of wishes every time.

In your home, she is the only one deeply religious and constantly talking about faith, while your father is the opposite—he doesn’t care about religion and focuses only on his business. You, on the other hand, spend your days studying. You even force yourself to pray once a week, But deep down, you know it doesn’t make sense to you. Your mother sees you as a villain or an outcast in your own home, calling you out for not believing in prayers and god She insists that not praying or questioning religious practices is wrong. These conversations spread throughout your family, and soon, everyone starts seeing you as a bad influence.

and you really want to express that you do believe in God, but praying just to prove that you follow religion feels meaningless to you . Yet, she will never understand what you understand, and you have to accept that.